THE DIVINE ORDER (Beyond Mahatma Gandhi, Part 2)

When an evil is seen as a necessity because it is construed as the order of things created by God, then God's "order" is seen only in given actualities and not in divine possibilities.  When Gandhi justifies the existence of the Caste System as that which is ordained by God he commits a violence which his own ideology of non-violence would disavow.  God is used all too often to justify violence, privilege and personal or cultural perspective, relativisms which justify all kinds of injustices.  We should all revisit Plato's dialogue, the Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks the famous question:  "Does God say something is good because it is good or is it good only because God says it's good?"